Examples of citizen in the following topics:
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- The Citizen Genêt Affair threatened American neutrality during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- The "Citizen Genêt Affair" refers to an event from 1793 to 1794, when a French minister, Edmond-Charles Genêt, was dispatched by the French National Assembly to the United States to enlist American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain.
- Instead of traveling to Philadelphia to present himself to President Washington for accreditation, Citizen Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 8, 1793, where he remained after being met with great Democratic-Republican fanfare.
- Genêt commissioned four privateering ships (the Republicaine, the Anti-George, the Sans-Culotte, and the Citizen Genêt) and organized American volunteers to fight Britain's Spanish allies in Florida.
- The Citizen Genêt Affair spurred Great Britain to instruct its naval commanders in the West Indies to seize all ships trading with the French.
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- Civic duty: citizens have the responsibility to understand and support the government, participate in elections, pay taxes, and perform military service.
- Democracy: The government is answerable to citizens, who may change their representatives through elections.
- Equality before the law: The laws should attach no special privilege to any citizen.
- Government officials are subject to the law the same as private citizens.
- Freedom of speech: The government cannot restrict through law or action the personal, nonviolent speech of a citizen; a marketplace of ideas should prevail.
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- It is invoked to describe the fundamental rights of citizens as defined in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
- Broadly, the "language of liberty" includes widespread political participation and the duty of the citizen to safeguard against arbitrary despotism; the right of citizens to life and liberty, and the Bill of Rights' protections from politically corrupted governance.
- Democracy: The government is answerable to citizens, who may change the representatives through elections.
- Equality before the law: The laws should attach no special privilege to any citizen (i.e. government officials and wealthier citizens are also subject to the law).
- Freedom of speech: The government cannot restrict the citizen's right to criticize authority or voice opposition to the government.
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- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives.
- A virtuous citizen was one that ignored monetary compensation and made a commitment to resist and eradicate corruption.
- Virtuous citizens needed to be strong defenders of liberty and challenge the corruption and greed in government.
- The duty of the virtuous citizen became a foundation for the American Revolution.
- Thomas Jefferson defined a republic as: "...a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally, according to rules established by the majority; and that every other government is more or less republican, in proportion as it has in its composition more or less of this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens.
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- Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens.
- Supreme Court stating that
people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves
were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens.
- The Dred
Scott decision was particularly significant because the Court concluded that
Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories
(nullifying the Missouri Compromise) and that, because slaves were not
citizens, they could not sue in court.
- Were black people considered citizens of the
U.S. and therefore eligible to pursue suits in court?
- The Court ruled that
Scott was not a citizen of the United States, that residence in a free
territory did not make Scott free, and that Congress had no constitutional
authority to prohibit slavery in any territory.
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- Civic duty: citizens have the responsibility to understand and support the government, participate in elections, pay taxes, and perform military service.
- Democracy: The government is answerable to citizens, who may change the representatives through elections.
- Equality before the law: The laws should attach no special privilege to any citizen (i.e. government officials and wealthier citizens are also subject to the law).
- Freedom of speech: The government cannot restrict the citizen's right to criticize authority or voice opposition to the government
- With the conflict with Britain in the 1760s and 1770s, these principles, particularly that the government is answerable to citizens and political representation, was a requisite for implementing new taxes and were often invoked by colonists as justification for boycotting British goods and other forms of resistance.
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- Civic duty: citizens have the responsibility to understand and support the government, participate in elections, pay taxes, and perform military service.
- Democracy: The government is answerable to citizens, who may change the representatives through elections.
- Equality before the law: The laws should attach no special privilege to any citizen, and government officials and wealthier citizens are also subject to the law.
- Freedom of speech: The government cannot restrict the citizen's right to criticize authority or voice opposition to the government.
- With the building conflict with Britain in the 1760s and 1770s, these principles (particularly that the government is answerable to citizens and political representation is a requisite for implementing new taxes) were often invoked by colonists as justification for boycotting British goods and other forms of resistance that led to the American Revolution.
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- The Bill of Rights refers to the first ten amendments of the Constitution that outlines the basic freedoms held by American citizens.
- These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property of individual citizens from any tyrannical measures imposed by the federal government.
- Even though these limitations were not explicit in the Bill of Right's text, it took additional Constitutional Amendments and numerous Supreme Court cases to extend the same rights to all U.S. citizens.
- The English Bill of Rights differed substantially in form and intent from the American Bill of Rights, because it was intended to address the rights of citizens as represented by Parliament against the Crown.
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- It stresses liberty and inalienable rights as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent in their performance of civic duties, and vilifies corruption.
- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives.
- A virtuous citizen was one that ignored monetary compensation and made a commitment to resist and eradicate corruption.
- The Founding Fathers discoursed endlessly on the meaning of "republicanism. " John Adams in 1787 defined it as "a government, in which all men, rich and poor, magistrates and subjects, officers and people, masters and servants, the first citizen and the last, are equally subject to the laws. "
- This restriction was not severe at the time, as most citizens owned farms in the 90% rural nation.
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- Territorial citizens came to both decry federal power and local corruption, and at the same time, lament that more federal dollars were not sent their way.
- The legislatures, on the other hand, spoke for the local citizens and they were given considerable leeway by the federal government to make local law.
- "Territorial rings," corrupt associations of local politicians and business owners buttressed with federal patronage, embezzled from Indian tribes and local citizens, especially in the Dakota and New Mexico territories.
- The Homestead Act granted 160 acres to each settler who improved the land for five years, whether citizens or non-citizens and including squatters and women, for no more than modest filing fees.